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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in distance learning technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that elearning institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Nigeria to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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